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Europe Must Sharpen Its Aims

While the European Union has shown unity in responding firmly to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is insufficiently prepared to address its most immediate challenges. Policymakers must now focus on four priorities in particular.

MADRID – Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought Europe back to a place we thought had been consigned to an unrepeatable past. We find ourselves confronting an irrational leader whose foreign policy has been degenerating since the day, in 2001, when US President George W. Bush looked him in the eye and said he had found a man he could trust.

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